Overview

• French authorities have officially ruled the February deaths of British expatriates Andrew Searle and Dawn Kerr as a murder-suicide, closing the case unless new evidence emerges.
• Dawn Kerr was found with fatal head injuries outside their home, while Andrew Searle was discovered hanged inside the house.
• Prosecutors found no evidence of third-party involvement, but the absence of a weapon linked to Kerr’s injuries and scattered jewelry near her body remain unexplained.
• The couple, who had lived in the Aveyron region of France for five years, were well-integrated into the local community.
• Dawn Kerr was the mother of Scottish actor Callum Kerr, and Andrew Searle was a retired fraud investigator with a career in financial crime prevention.